10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
It turned out that growling, protracted howls, and lyrics like “You may think I’m a dog, but really I’m a wolf” become tolerable when the alternatives are dance remixes of the Carpenters’ love ballads.” Unfortunately, sometimes this strategy fails, when even the best two out of 100 photos of a species still are not very good.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
The new Guide to the Birds of China (John MacKinnon) has been published. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). I guess it would be wise for Shanghai not to make this species its city bird, as it may not be around for much longer. And it does not even live in reeds.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2022
China is developing very fast, and Shanghai is developing even faster. This is often the case in birds – for the young birds, it is more important to be invisible than to impress the other birds of the same species. Like many other birds, when it feels safe, this species likes to take a bath.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2023
I also only managed to see rather common bird species at Shennongjia, a nature reserve in Hubei province, China. In the past, Great Spotted Woodpeckers mostly lived off renting out their old apartments to other species. A Red-billed Blue Magpie pretending to be a wet dog. “Hey, it’s such a beautiful sunny day!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2019
After getting to the letter C last week in a roughly alphabetical order, I will show the second 10 species today. The Light-vented Bulbul is probably one of the two or three most common species here in Shanghai, which is not bad given that it is a fairly attractive bird.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
learning to swim” A baby bird ( Robin Accentor , Dulan, China). Several baby birds ( Little Egret , Shanghai, China). Black-necked Crane , Qinghai Lake, China. White-naped Crane , Nanhui, China. An Oriental Turtle Dove (Wolongshan, China). I am sure you can easily imagine this as a PowerPoint slide.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2019
This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia, edited by Yong Ding Li & Low Bing Wen.
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